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Lifelong Liverpool fan Derry Mathews aims to take a leaf out of Jurgen Klopp’s book when he challenges for the world lightweight title at the Echo Arena on Saturday.

Opponent Terry Flanagan is a Manchester City fan. And just like the Reds avenged their Capital One Cup final defeat by City with a comprehensive crushing at Anfield last week, Mathews aims to avenge a three round Prize Fighter defeat by Flanagan backin 2012.

“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; I don’t lose rematches, especially against Mancs,” rapped Mathews. “Liverpool avenged our loss in the cup and I’ll be avenging my Prize Fighter loss when I take Terry’s belt from him next week.

“We had City up against the ropes the entire night and I’ll be doing the same to Terry next Saturday. We’ll be going toe-to-toe in a proper dust up, there’ll be no dancing around avoiding each other. It’s evenly poised at 1-1 now and I’ll be smashing him up to take the decider.

“City came to town expecting to turn us over again but we smashed them to pieces. A lot of people have already written me off but they’ll be in for a shock when they witness me take Terry apart. You should never write me off; I’ve proved that time and time again.”

And while the bookies make world champion Flanagan a firm favourite, former world champion and Sky Sports analyst Glenn McCrory has a sneaking feeling that the Scouser can pull off an upset.

“I think this one could be an absolute cracker - bringing into play that rivalry between Manchester and Liverpool,” he said.

“There’s been a few times you’ve thought it’s been time for him to hang them up, and indeed for a short while he did exactly that. He wasn’t finished with the sport however, and thankfully for the fans he came back because he has delivered some cracking fights over the years.

“You just can never write ‘Dirty’ Derry off because he’ll keep coming back and proving you wrong. He beat Anthony Crolla against the odds and his knockout win over Tommy Coyle proves he’s always got a puncher’s chance.